Coffin lid

Description

Lid for an anthropoid wooden coffin, plastered and painted, of a child, Tairtsekher, daughter of Irtnefret: Ancient Egyptian, possibly from Deir el-Medina, Upper Egypt, New Kingdom, early 19th Dynasty, c.1292-1200 BC

Museum reference

A.1887.597 A

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Coffin lid

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

New Kingdom
19th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood

Physical description

Wood

Collection place(s)

Deir el-Medina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Depicted: Tairtsekher
Irtnefret

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• The Tomb

• Fascinating Mummies (11 Feb 2012 - 27 May 2012)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Egyptian Mummies: Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs (06 Oct 2007 - 24 Mar 2008)
  Landesmuseum Württenberg

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

TAYLOR, J H (1989) Egyptian Coffins (Princes Risborough: Shire Publications), p.38

IKRAM, S & A M DODSON (1998). The Mummy in Ancient Egypt (London: Thames & Hudson), p.225 [285].

Egyptian Mummies: Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs: Landesmuseum Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, (2007), pp.108-109, cat. 91

Manley, B and Dodson, A., (2010) Life Everlasting. National Museums Scotland Collection of Ancient Egyptian Coffins (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Ltd.), pp.30-31

On display

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